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Hospice Spending Soars For Assisted Living Residents

Check out these quality measures CMS is considering. If CMS heeds the OIG’s advice, you’ll be seeing lower payments for ALF residents under hospice payment reform. “Medicare payments for hospice care in ALFs more than doubled in 5 years, totaling $2.1 billion in 2012,” the HHS Office of Inspector General says in a report released Jan. 14, “Medicare Hospices Have [...]
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